I think it would be good to participate in GSoC and would be available as a mentor this year as well. The following projects from our project wiki page could serve as nice GSoC projects, IMO:
- Improving monitoring (I hope we make some progress in that direction until GSoC starts, but there will be more metrics to collect and to visualize.) - Spatial data analysis API - Cascading on Flink Who else would volunteer to be a mentor? Do you see other potential GSoC projects, e.g., in Flink Streaming, Gelly, or the planned ML library? Cheers, Fabian 2015-02-06 14:56 GMT+01:00 Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org>: > Some of the community members here have already some experience with GSoC > because back in the Stratosphere days we were also participating in GSoC. > > In my experience its more work than one might think in the beginning. But > it would be great if some committers in the projects agree to mentor some > students. > I'm pretty loaded with work right now and it would add too much to my > stress level to mentor a student. But I would be willing to help out with > answering questions on the ML etc. > > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Henry Saputra <henry.sapu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I have seen some interests from students about Flink. > > > > Maybe should officially submit proposal to Google summer of code this > year? > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Ulrich Stärk <u...@apache.org> > > Date: Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:44 PM > > Subject: Google Summer of Code 2015 is coming > > To: ment...@community.apache.org > > > > > > Hello PMCs (incubator Mentors, please forward this email to your > podlings), > > > > Google Summer of Code [1] is a program sponsored by Google allowing > > students to spend their summer > > working on open source software. Students will receive stipends for > > developing open source software > > full-time for three months. Projects will provide mentoring and > > project ideas, and in return have > > the chance to get new code developed and - most importantly - to > > identify and bring in new committers. > > > > The ASF will apply as a participating organization meaning individual > > projects don't have to apply > > separately. > > > > If you want to participate with your project we ask you to do the > > following things by no later than > > 2015-02-13 19:00 UTC (applications from organizations close a week later) > > > > 1. understand what it means to be a mentor [2]. > > > > 2. record your project ideas. > > > > Just create issues in JIRA, label them with gsoc2015, and they will > > show up at [3]. Please be as > > specific as possible when describing your idea. Include the > > programming language, the tools and > > skills required, but try not to scare potential students away. They > > are supposed to learn what's > > required before the program starts. > > > > Use labels, e.g. for the programming language (java, c, c++, erlang, > > python, brainfuck, ...) or > > technology area (cloud, xml, web, foo, bar, ...) and record them at [5]. > > > > Please use the COMDEV JIRA project for recording your ideas if your > > project doesn't use JIRA (e.g. > > httpd, ooo). Contact d...@community.apache.org if you need assistance. > > > > [4] contains some additional information (will be updated for 2015 > > shortly). > > > > 3. subscribe to ment...@community.apache.org; restricted to potential > > mentors, meant to be used as a > > private list - general discussions on the public > > d...@community.apache.org list as much as possible > > please). Use a recognized address when subscribing (@apache.org or one > > of your alias addresses on > > record). > > > > Note that the ASF isn't accepted as a participating organization yet, > > nevertheless you *have to* > > start recording your ideas now or we might not get accepted. > > > > Over the years we were able to complete hundreds of projects > > successfully. Some of our prior > > students are active contributors now! Let's make this year a success > again! > > > > Cheers, > > > > Uli > > > > P.S.: Except for the private parts (label spreadsheet mostly), this > > email is free to be shared > > publicly if you want to. > > > > [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2015 > > [2] http://community.apache.org/guide-to-being-a-mentor.html > > [3] http://s.apache.org/gsoc2015ideas > > [4] http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html > > [5] http://s.apache.org/gsoclabels > > >
